Glossary
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ABAG - Association of Bay Area Governments
Accessory dwelling
Affordable housing
AHBP/Home-SF - Affordable Housing Bonus Program (California / San Francisco)
BAAQMD - Bay Area Air Quality Management District
CCHO - Council of Community Housing Organizations
Community land trust
Condominium (also known as condo)
Congregate housing
Co-operative housing
CSFN - Coalition of San Francisco Neighborhoods
DB - Density Bonus
DR - Discretionary Review
Displacement
Floor-Area Ratio (FAR)
Gentrification
MEDA - Mission Economic Development Agency (San Francisco)
MHDC - Mission Housing Development Corporation (San Francisco)
Modular home
MOH - Mayor's Office of Housing (San Francisco)
MTC - Metropolitan Transit Commission (Bay Area)
Plan Bay Area
Prefabricated housing
Prop M - 1986 San Francisco ballot proposition limiting total office space within the city.
Redeployable housing
Redevelopment
Redlining
Right to housing
Residential hotel
Self-build housing
SFHAC - San Francisco Housing Action Coalition
SFTU - San Francisco Tenants Union
Smart growth
Social housing
THD - Telegraph Hill Dwellers (San Francisco)
Tiny house movement
TODCO
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Value capture
YIMBY
Zoning
Potential additional terms for glossary or articles:
Allotment garden
Autonomous building
Bedroom community (see commuter town)
Bicycle parking
Bike box
Bikeway
Bioretention
Bollard
Box bike (see cargo bike)
Brownfield land
Brownfield status
Buffered bike lane
Building envelope
Build out
Built environment
Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)
Busway
California Green Building initiative
Carbon-neutral
Car-free cities
Car-free zone
Cargo bike
Carpooling
Charrette
Clean energy
Co-housing
Commuter rail
Commuter town
Complete streets
Contraflow bike lane
Congestion pricing
Connectivity
Cool pavements
Curb extension
Cutoff luminaires
Densification
Density
Development footprint
Dwelling unit
Eco-mobility
Edge city
Environmental justice
Environmental racism
Environmental restoration
Exurb
Food desert
Food oasis
Food swamp
Foreclosure crisis
Fused grid
Ghetto
Grassroots
Green belt
Green building
Green construction
Green retrofit
Green roof
Green wall
Greenfield land
Greenfield status
Greenway
Greywater
Guerrilla urbanism
Heat island effect
Heritage preservation
High-rise residential building
High speed rail
Historic preservation
Home zone
Housing Vouchers
Inclusionary zoning
Industrial zone
Infill
Interim design
Intersectional
Land recycling
Land swap
Land use
Land value tax
Landlord licensing
Landscape urbanism
Laneway house
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)
Light rail
Linear city
Linear park
Livable streets
Low-impact development
Low-income
Mansionization
McMansion
Megalopolis
Mixed-use development
Modular building
Mortgage discrimination
Multi-family housing (also known as multi-residential building, or multi-unit housing)
Municipal bond
Naked streets
New Pedestrianism
New Urbanism
NIMBY
Noise Pollution
Organic waste
Paratransit
Parklet
Passive house
Pedestrian village
Permeable paving
Placemaking
Planned community
Planning (see urban planning)
Policy wonk
Pop-up
Porous paving
Protected bike lane
Protected intersection
Regional planning
Rent control
Residential area
Residential density
Rezoning
Rust Belt
Severance (land)
Shared housing
Shared lane markings
Shared space
Solid waste
Sprawl
Sub-prime mortgage
Sustainability
Sustainable cities
Tactical urbanism
Temporary housing
Terraced housing
Transect
Transitional housing
Transit-Oriented Development (TOD)
Unincorporated area
Urban agriculture
Urbanism
Vancouverism
Walkability
WikiHouse
Xeriscaping